Frontier Security and The New Indigenism: Nature and Origins of the Calha Norte Project

João Pacheco Oliveira Filho

Chapter 7 in The Future of Amazonia, 1990, pp 155-176 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract There are many government projects and programmes for Amazonia — the Plan for National Integration (PIN), POLAMAZONIA, PROBOR, POLONOROESTE, and the Greater Carajás Programme (PGC), amongst others — whose roots go back to the 1970s at a different moment in Brazil’s economic and political history, but whose consequences are felt up to the present time. They derive from a diversity of circumstances, of funding sources and executive institutions, generally expressing the interests both of those who control the Brazilian economy and of their overseas partners. The assumptions and directives of modernisation theory are advanced in the hope that the principles of a market economy will gradually come to characterise settlement of the interior. Thus, agricultural and agroindustrial activities are emphasised, along with a concern for indicators of economic efficiency and the balancing of migratory flows, in the hope of reconciling these economic goals with social programmes of directed assistance to small farmers.

Keywords: Indian Policy; Indian Post; Indian Land; Indigenous Land; Forest Dweller (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-21068-8_7

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